inside out

Objectives: ·Actively participate in a discussion about images seen in the media and popular culture today and their significance to our lives.·Create a collage that documents our contemporary lives using layering techniques, juxtaposition, emphasis and color.

In the project you will:

Choose a personal theme to do with inside out. Something that visual interests you.

Brainstorm ideas, visually and choose objects

Use pinterest to gather more ideas

Describe how balance and unity are created in 3 chosen artworks based around your topic

Pencil drawings with tone and contrast of insides of chosen object

Charcoal drawings on the pages of an old book

Soft pastel blending on black/brown

Water colour experiments, paint splattering

Dry point acrylic on different backgrounds, creating a balanced feel with simple shapes and lines

Ideas for final, combining 2/3media

Final Design Page

STUDIO WORK - Use a collection of personal items based around your topic, dissect them to study and create a collage work that combines; collage, fractured planes, multiple view-points, soft-pastels, charcoal, water color and or acrylic. Your fous should be on how you balance and creating a unity in the art.

What is unity and balance?

the theme: Inside out

Basically, this means, what's on the inside?

choose

Choose a sub theme from the following topics:- Fruit and Veg-Machines and technology-Emotions-The Human Body-Or try combining 2 of the above

A traditional start

You'll need to find an object to draw. Self portrait - a photo. Body parts - Science skeleton Food- Well that's easy Emotions - which emotion? Is there an object that could represent that? or can you combine it with another sub-topic. Emotion really needs to go with something so you have a base.

try something new

create contrast

add emphasis

Using collage to draw on

KURT SCHWITTERSGerman painter, sculptor, designer and writer. He was a clerical officer and mechanical draughtsman during World War I. At first his painting was naturalistic and then Impressionistic, until he came into contact with Expressionist art, particularly the art associated with Der Sturm, in 1918. He became associated with the Dada movement in Berlin after meeting Hans Arp, Raoul Hausmann, Hannah Höch and Richard Huelsenbeck, and he began to make collages that he called Merzbilder. These were made from waste materials picked up in the streets and parks of Hannover, and in them he saw the creation of a fragile new beauty out of the ruins of German culture. Similarly he began to compose his poetry from snatches of overheard conversations and randomly derived phrases from newspapers and magazines. The word derives from a fragment of the word Kommerz, used in an early assemblage (Merzbild, 1919; destr.; see Elderfield, no. 42), for which Schwitters subsequently gave a number of meanings, the most frequent being that of ‘refuse’ or ‘rejects’. In 1919 he wrote: ‘The word Merz denotes essentially the combination, for artistic purposes, of all conceivable materials, and, technically, the principle of the equal distribution of the individual materials …. A perambulator wheel, wire-netting, string and cotton wool are factors having equal rights with paint’; such materials were indeed incorporated in Schwitters’s large assemblages and painted collages of this period, for example Construction for Noble Ladies.

ComplimentaryWhen you mix two opposites together anywhere on the Color Wheel, the result becomes increasingly neutral.Blow see Red and Green. quickly the brightness of each gets dulled down. On the bottom row, I've added a little white to demonstrate how you can easily achieve a lovely range of neutrals without using black.YELLOW+VIOLET / PURPLE=WARM GRAYBLUE+ORANGE=COOL BROWNRED+GREEN=WARM BROWNKnowing this little trick with complementary colors is really valuable when you have paint colors that are a touch too bright but you don't want to change them too much. Adding gray (black + white) as we have with other Color Schemes can flatten your color. Instead, by simply adding a tiny drop of the Complement, you can get a more neutral version of the original.

Analogue and a ComplimentaryHere, Violet is selected as the main 'Mother Color'.On either side of the Yellow directly opposite Violet in theColor Wheel is Yellow/Green and Yellow/Orange. They are shown on the top row. The cleanest, loveliest paint mixtures will be achieved if you mix your own Yellow/Green and Yellow/Orange using the sameYellow for both.By adding a tiny bit of Violet to the two top paint colors you get some interesting results.

Violet + Yellow/Green = OliveViolet + Yellow/Orange = Burnt OrangeViolet + Yellow/Green + Yellow/Orange = Neutral BrownNotice how the 3 mixtures on the bottom row work so well together. There's never any clashing with this method.Of course you can then alter each of these even further by adding White, Black or Grey. Add more of the three hues too if you begin to lose the color. As long as you stick with the same three and don't add any other Hue, they will always go together.

Square TetradHere our color palette is Red,Green, Yellow/Orange andBlue/Violet. Notice the two pairs of Complementary Hues.Red is the dominant Mother Color and placed in the middle. Pure Green, Yellow/Orange and Blue/Violet are shown on the top row.By adding a tiny bit of Red to the three paint colors on the top row, you'll get some interesting results which you can see on the bottom row. The original harshness of the colors harmonize and become a 'family'. If you add more red to each the colors will change even more.

Green + a little Red = Dull Khaki GreenYellow/Orange + a little Red = Intense OrangeBlue/Violet + a little Red = BurgundyThe Neutral Brown in the middle row on the right is a mixture of all four starting colors.There's no guesswork as to which neutral to use, because all these colors are part of a blended family.Even though the mixtures on the bottom row no longer clash, they're still a bit challenging to balance. That intense orange will need to be used in small doses to keep from overpowering the other more subdued mixtures. It will help to add white to lighten, black to darken and grey to tone down brighter paint mixtures a create a broader range of colors.

MonocromaticTake any one of the twelve Hues from the Basic Color Wheel and repeating it in various Tints, Shades and Tones.

You would be surprised how many variations, both obvious and subtle, can be achieved from just one color. This monochromatic color scheme approach is actually considered very sophisticated and usually creates a calming effect.here, pure Orange paint and mixed a little of the following pigments to quickly create these eight colors.

some white to get lightest Tints

tiny drop of black to get darkest Shades

a little gray to Tone things down

more Orange to increase color

ACRYLIC PAINTING TECHNIQUE

making that studio work

Final Assignment - Create a mixed media, collage based on the theme INSIDE-OUT. You will have chosen a detail from that theme at the beginning : human body, fruit etc etc.

You should use all media, you've experimented with throughout the project and a variety of surfaces to apply media to.

You will be asked how you have considered BALANCE AND UNITY

Try overlapping objects

Try breaking things apart

Try creating a textured background

Try cutting your media away from it's background and then sticking it on